Quotes About Learning

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.

You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday

Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.

In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.

Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.

Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Wise? No, I simply learned to think.

The gateways to wisdom and knowledge are always open.

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.

You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

The person I like most is the one who points out my defects

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.